It would be more than 2,000 years before the location was re-visited by humans. “It is tempting to speculate that it was the death of the child and the emplacement of the burial at the site that ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

In the weeks after, excavations revealed a full juvenile skeleton, thought to belong to a 4- to 5-year old. Archaeologists found that the child had some human features, such as dental proportions, but ...

Using the quartz in the soil, the researchers found that the skull is between 108,000 and 110,000 years old, from the same era in which modern human culture emerged. Hulu/National Geographic ...

This virtual reconstruction shows the original position of a child’s bones in a Kenyan grave dug around 78,300 years ago, making it Africa’s oldest known human interment. Jorge González ...

The discovery of a deliberately buried toddler may offer new insights into the Middle Stone Age, a key period in the human timeline. Scientists find Africa's oldest human burial, a child from ...